Alex Hornby
@alexhornbyrail.bsky.social
Commercial & Customer Director at Northern. Passionate about the people and places we serve, and the teams who help us do it.
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Alex Hornby
@alexhornbyrail.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Thrilled to be joining Northern Trains as their new Commercial & Customer Director. As the second biggest rail operator in the country, this is a role with scale and massive opportunity - and has a clear vision to have a positive impact across the North.
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We don’t mind which of our life changing stations you vote for - as long as it’s #Ashington or #Ribblehead!
Support us in our opportunity to win #WorldCupOfStations 2025 - thank you 🙏
👉 www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
Support us in our opportunity to win #WorldCupOfStations 2025 - thank you 🙏
👉 www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We don’t mind which of our life changing stations you vote for - as long as it’s #Ashington or #Ribblehead!
Support us in our opportunity to win #WorldCupOfStations 2025 - thank you 🙏
👉 www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
Support us in our opportunity to win #WorldCupOfStations 2025 - thank you 🙏
👉 www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
What a special (and proud!) day with some special people - notably our long-serving collegaues Mick, Mark and Colin - and a host of Apprentices and trainee drivers & conductors, celebrating our past, present and future with our newly unveiled Railway 200 train 💙
#railway200 X #Northern
#railway200 X #Northern
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What a special (and proud!) day with some special people - notably our long-serving collegaues Mick, Mark and Colin - and a host of Apprentices and trainee drivers & conductors, celebrating our past, present and future with our newly unveiled Railway 200 train 💙
#railway200 X #Northern
#railway200 X #Northern
And we’re working on the 1%.
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
And we’re working on the 1%.
Our autumn commuter campaign aims to capture the imagination and is all about modal shift, including digital billboard messages triggered by traffic queues on key arterial routes in/out of busy towns and cities.
The message is to switch to “Train Mode On”!
#Northern #GoDoYourThing 💙
The message is to switch to “Train Mode On”!
#Northern #GoDoYourThing 💙
September 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our autumn commuter campaign aims to capture the imagination and is all about modal shift, including digital billboard messages triggered by traffic queues on key arterial routes in/out of busy towns and cities.
The message is to switch to “Train Mode On”!
#Northern #GoDoYourThing 💙
The message is to switch to “Train Mode On”!
#Northern #GoDoYourThing 💙
September 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
September 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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We've been riding the Northumberland Line for #BetterTransportWeek today with @alexhornbyrail.bsky.social from Northern Rail and Paul Henry Programme Director for the Northumberland Line.
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We've been riding the Northumberland Line for #BetterTransportWeek today with @alexhornbyrail.bsky.social from Northern Rail and Paul Henry Programme Director for the Northumberland Line.
Cheers gaffer. ‘Til we meet again. 🤍
May 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Cheers gaffer. ‘Til we meet again. 🤍
👀 Unlimited travel with Northern, anywhere, everywhere, as many trains as you like from just £10 all day?
💥 Our latest offer is here in time for the summer!
👉 Collect tokens in your local newspaper. For more info head to northernrailway.co.uk/nationalworld
💥 Our latest offer is here in time for the summer!
👉 Collect tokens in your local newspaper. For more info head to northernrailway.co.uk/nationalworld
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
👀 Unlimited travel with Northern, anywhere, everywhere, as many trains as you like from just £10 all day?
💥 Our latest offer is here in time for the summer!
👉 Collect tokens in your local newspaper. For more info head to northernrailway.co.uk/nationalworld
💥 Our latest offer is here in time for the summer!
👉 Collect tokens in your local newspaper. For more info head to northernrailway.co.uk/nationalworld
Our revenue protection teams have one of the most challenging jobs. They’re good people doing so much to create a fair railway for us all. We recognised their work recently in conference, rewarding top performer Richard Hagues who took away the Revenue Officer of the Year prize.
April 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Our revenue protection teams have one of the most challenging jobs. They’re good people doing so much to create a fair railway for us all. We recognised their work recently in conference, rewarding top performer Richard Hagues who took away the Revenue Officer of the Year prize.
⏰ We’re getting there. From 18 May, we’re adding extra capacity on some of our busiest lines (Blackpool-Manchester, Leeds-Doncaster & Wigan-Bolton). There will be some retimings and a few more extra services added across the network too.
ℹ️ More info 👉 www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timet...
ℹ️ More info 👉 www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timet...
April 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
⏰ We’re getting there. From 18 May, we’re adding extra capacity on some of our busiest lines (Blackpool-Manchester, Leeds-Doncaster & Wigan-Bolton). There will be some retimings and a few more extra services added across the network too.
ℹ️ More info 👉 www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timet...
ℹ️ More info 👉 www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timet...
Happy Easter everyone, and thanks as ever to those keeping us moving today, whether it be front of house or behind the scenes.
Take a look at www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/easter or give our team a shout on X if you need any help on your travels today.
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Take a look at www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/easter or give our team a shout on X if you need any help on your travels today.
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April 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Happy Easter everyone, and thanks as ever to those keeping us moving today, whether it be front of house or behind the scenes.
Take a look at www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/easter or give our team a shout on X if you need any help on your travels today.
🐣
Take a look at www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/easter or give our team a shout on X if you need any help on your travels today.
🐣
Our shared vision and alignment with @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social, the demand for better connectivity and our 99% reliability being achieved in Bradford were just a few of the things discussed live on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social with the legend that is @jeremyvine.bsky.social.
April 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Our shared vision and alignment with @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social, the demand for better connectivity and our 99% reliability being achieved in Bradford were just a few of the things discussed live on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social with the legend that is @jeremyvine.bsky.social.
Fascinating evening behind the scenes at our Newton Heath train care centre in Manchester. Even deeper appreciation for the work of our engineers keeping our trains safe and on the move.
April 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Fascinating evening behind the scenes at our Newton Heath train care centre in Manchester. Even deeper appreciation for the work of our engineers keeping our trains safe and on the move.
Being a big kid with a famous, fast blue train and a design hero 💙
Excellent day thanks to all at North Yorkshire Moors Railway 🙏
Excellent day thanks to all at North Yorkshire Moors Railway 🙏
March 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Being a big kid with a famous, fast blue train and a design hero 💙
Excellent day thanks to all at North Yorkshire Moors Railway 🙏
Excellent day thanks to all at North Yorkshire Moors Railway 🙏
We all love a good mayoral train naming ceremony, as we celebrate #Bradford2025 alongside Mayor Tracy Brabin and Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe here at Forster Square!
Our electric train 331004 is now ‘The Bradfordian’ in Bradford City of Culture livery. 💙🖤
Our electric train 331004 is now ‘The Bradfordian’ in Bradford City of Culture livery. 💙🖤
March 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We all love a good mayoral train naming ceremony, as we celebrate #Bradford2025 alongside Mayor Tracy Brabin and Council Leader Susan Hinchcliffe here at Forster Square!
Our electric train 331004 is now ‘The Bradfordian’ in Bradford City of Culture livery. 💙🖤
Our electric train 331004 is now ‘The Bradfordian’ in Bradford City of Culture livery. 💙🖤
Good morning from Leeds. On-time and pleasant journey in from Harrogate with friendly conductor Janine. After cosying up with our friends at LNER on platform 1, we’re off to Bradford Forster Square from platform 2 on our on-time 0812 departure.
Have a great Thursday.
Have a great Thursday.
March 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Good morning from Leeds. On-time and pleasant journey in from Harrogate with friendly conductor Janine. After cosying up with our friends at LNER on platform 1, we’re off to Bradford Forster Square from platform 2 on our on-time 0812 departure.
Have a great Thursday.
Have a great Thursday.
Departing Windermere 👋
March 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Departing Windermere 👋
Flashback to July 1968 and the always delightful station at Knaresborough.
📸 Thanks to Chris Davies.
📸 Thanks to Chris Davies.
March 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Flashback to July 1968 and the always delightful station at Knaresborough.
📸 Thanks to Chris Davies.
📸 Thanks to Chris Davies.
Greetings from our newest station! Newsham opens today on the #NorthumberlandLine, starring our brilliant Programme Mgr Paul, and Susan who’s just landed from Wembley telling me how the station will change her life - she was in a very good mood, can’t think why!
March 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Greetings from our newest station! Newsham opens today on the #NorthumberlandLine, starring our brilliant Programme Mgr Paul, and Susan who’s just landed from Wembley telling me how the station will change her life - she was in a very good mood, can’t think why!
Flashback to 1974 - when it was double tracked at Burnley Central, here we have a Class 105 ready to leave for Preston.
📸 Thanks to Nowtbutalad
📸 Thanks to Nowtbutalad
March 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Flashback to 1974 - when it was double tracked at Burnley Central, here we have a Class 105 ready to leave for Preston.
📸 Thanks to Nowtbutalad
📸 Thanks to Nowtbutalad
Good morning from York 👋
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good morning from York 👋
Good afternoon from Starbeck 👋
March 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Good afternoon from Starbeck 👋
Departing Harrogate.
March 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Departing Harrogate.
Our new favourite pub - and one of the latest additions in our property portfolio - Oxford Road Tap right on the footprint of the station.
Double Arrow-tastic.
Double Arrow-tastic.
March 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Our new favourite pub - and one of the latest additions in our property portfolio - Oxford Road Tap right on the footprint of the station.
Double Arrow-tastic.
Double Arrow-tastic.